Old Technology

schockergd said:
My first PC was a 120mhz IBM-PC clone (133mhz was the absolute best at the time) with 16mb of ram and a 8x CD rom. Thing FLEW for a year or so, it was interesting having the best PC on the block...We spent like $3k on it.
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First PC here was 33mhz(possibly 66mhz), 2mb ram, 200mb HD... cost around $2.5k

Later we upgraded to 4mb ram to support a submarine game that came out.

Launch The Torpedoes
Aye Aye Captain!

Computers are funny shit, so glad to be in the era I am in now.
 


haha, really funny. I bought the first computer [RadioShack] for my daughter with the words "it's your time, I will never use it, am lucky to operate a typewriter....".
Yep, times change, I became the geek, she is asking for my help....
God, am I old [really old] :)

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More Nostalgia:

Does anybody remember the Atari and the Atari Basic cartridge that came with it?
You would have to wait for a flashing bar to change a certain color, I think, before being able to use that command as you programmed:

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Apple IIE:

This was the game that did it for me... totally forgot to mention it in my earlier post. Loderunner:

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Some of the levels were just insane as you got higher up, required days and days to get through them.

Did anybody ever get wrapped up in the Zork Trilogy back then?

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Let me tell you.. these games were the best back then. They really stayed with you (the puzzles) unlike the games of today where you just listen to your heart pound as you're firing ammo and watching things blow up.
 
Represent:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfQbuqtUn9A]YouTube - Commodore PET 2001[/ame]

(True though, it was handed down to me, I am not quite that old.)
Amiga 2000 after that.

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NAME ACE 500MANUFACTURER FranklinTYPE Professional ComputerORIGIN U.S.A.YEAR 1983END OF PRODUCTION 1983BUILT IN LANGUAGE Applesoft BASICKEYBOARD Full stroke 90 keys with function keys and numeric keypadCPU MOS 65C02SPEED UnknownRAM 256 KB expandable to 512 KB on boardROM UnknownTEXT MODES 40 / 80 chars. x 24 lines (monochrome)GRAPHIC MODES All of the Apple IIc modes: 40 x 48 (16 col) / 80 x 48 (16 col) / 280 x 192 (6 col) / 140 x 192 (16 col) / 560 x 192 (mono)COLORS 16 maximumSOUND Built-in speakerI/O PORTS Parallel, Serial, NTSC RGB and composite video, joystick, mouseBUILT IN MEDIA Built-in 5.25OS Apple DOS 3.XPOWER SUPPLY Built-in power supply unitPRICE Unknown
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Hell, after looking at your 1st computer ... mine looks state of the art

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Still ... it was plugged into a b/w tv for output & had a tape drive for loading games.
 
We used to play a kick ass baseball game, I think it was called Hardball, on my friend's Comm 64. He had spyhunter too...oh the good ol days.
 
SpyHunter was awesome. Impossible Mission was good, too.

Here are some games I googled that I remembered, and loved:

Jumpman (the best!)
Moon Patrol
Blue Max
Archon
Spy vs Spy
Boulder Dash
Aztec Challenge
Pitfall
Beach Head
Bagit Man
Gauntlet
Elite
 
anybody played hostages? sounds/music were kick ass! i loved it!

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYtQGzV_kEk]YouTube - Hostages - Amiga version - Part 1 of 2[/ame]
 
Oh fuck, yes!

Hostages was great.. it kinda bugged me that all the rampage you would let loose in a room would vanish when you returned to it (aaah, technology back then), but it was still great!

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My first computer was an AST AvantagePro 486 25mhz (no math co-processor), 2MB of rams, an 85MB harddrive, and a 5" Floppy drive. Running DOS 5.5 and Windows 3.1, when I was about 12.

Not nearly as old as those fuckers above though. :D I remember I actually paid for Windows 95 when it came out for my 486/25... biggest mistake of a software purchase I made.

I basically held onto the 486/25 long as I could (eventually upgrading it to 16MB ram, 10GB hdd), then got a pentium 100mhz, then went the AMD route for a while from a 333mhz, up to a 1.6mhz before finally switching back to an intel pentium 4 2.8, and now on this macbook with a intel core2 duo 2.1ghz.

And to think my ipod touch was faster than half the machines I ever owned.
 
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